Goats eat their way through wildfire fuels as part of Anaheim Fire & Rescue’s fire-prevention strategy

A herd of about 180 Boer, Spanish, and Nubian goats cleared vegetation in Deer Canyon Park in Anaheim on Aug. 8, a regular people-pleasing strategy of managing and clearing vegetation to protect nearby homes from possible wildfires.

AF&R contracts with Environmental Land Management to use goats to gobble up fuels that would feed a brush fire.

Below are images of the goats.

A couple of goats engage in a few head butts as they eat the brush at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge

A couple of goats lock horns as they eat the brush at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge

A goat helps clear the weeds and brush, which includes poison oak, at Deer Canyon Park Reserve. Goats are able to eat poison oak without any harm.Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge

A couple walks by as goats clear the brush in a fenced-off area of Deer Canyon Park Reserve in Anaheim Hills on Aug. 8.Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge

Justin Day, a community risk reduction officer at Anaheim Fire & Rescue, checks on one of the two heard dogs looking after the goats at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge

A small tree serves as a way for a goat to scratch an itch.Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge

A resourceful goat gets the leaves from the branch of a small tree as it and others eat their way through Deer Canyon Park Reserve in Anaheim Hills.Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge

A goat eats its way through the weeds and other brush at Deer Canyon Park Reserve in Anaheim Hills on Aug. 8.Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge

Justin Day, a community risk reduction manager at Anaheim Fire & Rescue, with one of the goats at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge

Goats eat their way through the weeds and other brush at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge

A curious goat at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge

Justin Day of Anaheim Fire & Rescue gets creative with a few photos of his own of the goats at Deer Canyon Park Reserve.Photo by Justin Day/Anaheim Fire & Rescue